by Phil Jones | Updated 2 Mar, 2018 | Agile & learning organisations
Many organisations want to be agile. The problem is that agility requires two earlier steps. You can have an agile organisation, but if that agility is never exploited, then it is a wasted resource. Organisational agility is in fact a three-part problem (and...
by Phil Jones | Updated 20 Jun, 2018 | Thought provokers
Boy was I getting frustrated! I was reading the latest version of ISO9000:2015 and the link it says organisations should establish between its quality management system and the organisation’s strategic direction. As I spend all my time helping clients with...
by Phil Jones | Updated 30 Jul, 2018 | Communicating Strategy: The Book, Socialising strategy
After my book ‘Communicating Strategy’ was published, I realised I should have called it ‘Socialising Strategy’. Getting strategy into day to day conversation and decision making When I wrote Communicating Strategy, I was trying to get across...
by Phil Jones | Updated 4 Jan, 2018 | Organisations are Social systems
In this article, I explore the idea of, metaphorical, dark matter and dark energy, in organisational success and organisational performance. Jim Collins, (Author of Good to Great and Built to last) suggests we have missed this important dark matter. I offer ways you...
by Phil Jones | Updated 24 Oct, 2017 | Organisations are Social systems, Paradigm shifts, Thought provokers
Whilst organisations appear to be organised, social systems emerge naturally and connect, despite organisational structures and boundaries. In reality, we need to view and understand our Organisations as Social systems. If we forget that we miss how people, human...